My educational philosophy is growing as I incorporate new thinking

through my coursework, fieldwork and reflection. These aspects I am

sure about:
Encouraging Academic Language Use and Content Skills: My teaching is
designed around the theory that students will truly adopt new language
and techniques only if they can use them often, use them
authentically (because they absolutely need to) and use them in a safe
environment (Swain, Daggett, Krashen.)
Empowering Students to be Lifelong Learners: The way that I interact as
an educator is an attempt to undermine the teacher as banker paradigm
and establish the desire and responsibility for learning with the students
through relevant material, urgent social need, and choice. (Friere)
Social and Emotional Learning: Not only do the soft skill-sets, like
communication, management and, conflict resolution pave the way to
success in the real world, they make the creation of complex artwork
through collaboration possible in the art classroom. While it may at
first prove uncomfortable for the students, my teaching is designed to
produce situations that require the use of new social skills and
opportunities to reflect on strategies that work.